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Blog Banter 26: The Beauty of EVE

Welcome to the twenty-sixth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week or so to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check for other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

This month’s topic was proposed by @KatiaSae of the much praised “To Boldly Go” blog. Katia asks: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As an astrophotographer, I’ve found it in the stars and planets of New Eden. Where have you found it? Perhaps you’ve found beauty in the ships we fly? Maybe it’s the sight of profits being added to your bottom line? Or maybe it’s the pilot portraits you see in the comm channels? Where ever you’ve found it, write about it and post an image.” Don’t be afraid go beyond the simple visual aspects of EVE as well. Is the EVE Community in itself a thing of beauty? What makes EVE the game, the world, the Community, so appealing to you?

Why I Fight: The Beautiful Feeling of Battle

For me, the Sleipnir is a truly beautiful sight, especially when I’m in one spewing projectiles of death…

Why do I climb into pod day after day, risking the lives of my crews? Why to I keep flying, I ask myself each time I watch as those lives are snuffed out in the vaccum of space or as the value of a small planetary colony explodes in an agony of a matter-conversion explosion?

I fight because I am a part of something larger and more noble, and in being part of that I am myself catapulted to levels of something larger and far greater than myself. I fight for the Republic and what it stands for, and against the evils of the Amarr Empire and what it has and continues to stand for: the enslavement of an entire people.

I fight because of the bravery and camaraderie of my noble Companions of Late Nite. And I am proud to be numbered among these greatest of warriors who serve in the Tribal Liberation Force and fight in the endless Faction War. I die, am reborn, and die again alongside them, and as they do for me.

I fight because I am a xia, a dragon knight of the Huang Yinglong brotherhood, an organization that has resurrected the noble martial arts lore of our ancient Vherokior forefathers, long thought to be lost before the dark times, before the coming of the Amarr slavers in their golden ships. I fight for honor, glory, brotherhood and vengeance.

I fight because my enemies are many, some noble and honorable, others weak and despicable, yet powerful enough to prey upon the weaker and more helpless. I take deep satisfaction in slaying the enemy—pirate or Amarr, all deserve defeat. I do not look for ‘fairness’ as there is no fairness in war, only victory or defeat. Yet, a victory against large odds is always the greater one.

I fight because I revel in the exultation of battle and victory, of skill and bravery in battle, like the xia of old. The greater the odds, the greater the glory and joy of the victorious. I fight because as a capsuleer, I am as one of the War Gods of old, striding across the heavens wielding thunder and lightning.

I fight because that is what I am: a Vherokior Warrior, a Knight of the Dragon, a Companion of the Late Nite fleet, and a Soldier of the Republic.

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